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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4675509" data-attributes="member: 8158"><p>Y'know, I really wish I could remember which critical thinking fallacy this is. It's the same fallacy that argues that a priest has no business counseling married couples because he's never been married himself. Likewsie, people don't need to purchase a product before they can evaluate whether or not it has value. People don't need to join a group in order to know what it means to be a member. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Which is reflective of...precious little, let's be honest. A forum invariably attracts a certain crowd, and in ENWorld the crowd is gered towards full-blown 4e adopters. I'm constantly alienated from threads not just because I don't have any interest in DDI, but because I'm constantly corrected when quoting from the PHB or DMG because of the copious amounts of errata and revisions to the core rules which I haven't memorized. Go to a Paizo forum and you may see in their thread that a lot of folks don't like DDI--and again, that reflects little other than the fact that like thinking people get together.</p><p></p><p>And that's where I have to kick myself, because I didn't remind myself of that before I thought to post. This is clearly a thread for folks who have long-standing DDI subscriptions, so I shouldn't be surprised at all of the defensive and unreceptive responses. So, forgive the interruption and return to enjoying your DDI-member-exclusive thread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Felon, post: 4675509, member: 8158"] Y'know, I really wish I could remember which critical thinking fallacy this is. It's the same fallacy that argues that a priest has no business counseling married couples because he's never been married himself. Likewsie, people don't need to purchase a product before they can evaluate whether or not it has value. People don't need to join a group in order to know what it means to be a member. Which is reflective of...precious little, let's be honest. A forum invariably attracts a certain crowd, and in ENWorld the crowd is gered towards full-blown 4e adopters. I'm constantly alienated from threads not just because I don't have any interest in DDI, but because I'm constantly corrected when quoting from the PHB or DMG because of the copious amounts of errata and revisions to the core rules which I haven't memorized. Go to a Paizo forum and you may see in their thread that a lot of folks don't like DDI--and again, that reflects little other than the fact that like thinking people get together. And that's where I have to kick myself, because I didn't remind myself of that before I thought to post. This is clearly a thread for folks who have long-standing DDI subscriptions, so I shouldn't be surprised at all of the defensive and unreceptive responses. So, forgive the interruption and return to enjoying your DDI-member-exclusive thread. [/QUOTE]
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